So this my Tuesday in food. Not the best of days, when I’m unhappy and/or stressed my food choices go one of two ways. Either I eat loads to comfort myself (bad habit) or I don’t really eat because I don’t feel hungry (which is why when Stef was ill, I lost 2 and bit stone in three months, not really sustainable or healthy, I was miserable but dammit I was thinner, which was the only good thing about a really bad time.
In the great scheme of things Tuesday wasn’t actually a really bad day but food was not a priority, looking at it as I write this, I realise I started well and then it sort of trailed off as the day went on.
Anyway, this is what I ate
green smoothie/coffee/berocca
I decided to start having this smoothie again as it makes me feel better, coffee is making a comeback this week, I didn’t have it on Sunday or Monday but I could not have got out of bed and to work without coffee. The berocca is just ’cause I need all the help I can get, I haven’t been taking any vitamin supplements recently and I think I need them!
Kinder treat/fennel tea
Laura came back from holiday with loads of kinder chocolate but no eggs! I had this with my tea which I didn’t take a photo of.
Two oatcakes with smoked salmon/a pepper
Mid morning snack that I got around to eating at noon, I was leaving early to go to the dentist and it was busy!
Roasted vegetable, chickpea and pearl barley salad
This was technically lunch but it was 4.30pm before I ate it. After the ‘disaster at the the dentist’ and me being all emotional, I needed to logged on and had been working for over an hour when I remembered that the step I’d missed this afternoon was lunch! This is a typical lunch for me, the only thing that really changes is the grain, today it was pearl barley (which I’ve really gotten into recently, it’s lovely and chewy) instead of my usual lentils.
Kinder maxi bar
Because I could. I also drank a couple of pints of water but no photo of those.
That was it. I spoke to Ma about 7pm and I was intending to eat soup but I just didn’t feel hungry so didn’t get around to it. While I know that it’s not good to skip meals, if I’m not hungry and I’ve eaten during the day, I don’t think that it’ll do me much harm!
Nic Dempsey 